Today’s New York Times has an interesting piece on Amma a.k.a. MÄtÄ AmritanandamayÄ« Devi and originally as Sudhamani. Amma, who hails from the South Indian state of Kerala, is also known as the Hugging Saint, a reference to this oddball’s penchant for hugging people. According to the NYT story, the 54-year-old Amma hugged over 8,000 people […]
More Indian software developers use Google’s Orkut social networking web site than rival sites like Facebook or MySpace, according to a new survey by IT market researcher Evans Data. In general, Facebook and MySpace are more popular social networking sites in the U.S. although we don’t know where these sites stand vis-a-vis developers. In a survey […]
Providence Equity Partners is investing $640 million in Indian wireless communications company Aditya Birla Telecom. Providence’s investment, which is one of the largest private equity investments in India, will be used to fund the network rollout and ongoing operations of Aditya Birla Telecom. Aditya Birla Telecom owns the telecom UAS license for the Bihar service […]
Supply chain software house i2 Technologies has named Pallab Chatterjee CEO. Chatterjee has been interim CEO of i2 Technologies since July 31, 2007. Chatterjee joined i2 Technologies in January 2000 as Chief Operating Officer. From 1976 until joining i2 Technologies, Chatterjee held key positions with TI, including president of the company’s $1 billion Personal Productivity […]
Multiple bomb blasts rocked the Indian city of Jaipur today. Early reports suggest that several dozen people have been killed. One news report said over 60 people were killed in six blasts. Dozens of other people have been injured. Capital of the Western Indian state of Rajasthan, Jaipur is known as the Pink City for its pink […]
Having conquered the world’s markets, China’s countless millions have now embarked on a new mission – to master the English language, the global language of art and commerce. The New Yorker has an interesting piece on the Chinese’ obsession with English in the latest issue: China has been in the grip of “English fever,†as […]